MLB.com's Carrie Muskat has been covering Major League Baseball since 1981 and is the author of "Banks to Sandberg to Grace: Five Decades of Love and Frustration with the Cubs." You can follow her on Twitter @CarrieMuskat. Here, she blogs about the Cubs.

5/11 Extra bases

* In the last three games, the Cubs starting pitchers have gone seven innings and given up one run or none. That last happened July 29-31, 2008, against the Brewers when Carlos Zambrano, Ryan Dempster and Rich Harden did so. According to Elias Sports Bureau, the last time they went four straight games of seven innings with one run or none was July 29-31, 1984, when Steve Trout, Scott Sanderson, Dennis Eckersley and Rich Bordi did so.

* Bryan LaHair has reached base safely in 27 straight games. Taht’s the longest in the National League this season and third-longest in the Major Leagues.

* LaHair has 17 RBIs in his last 21 games.

* Jeff Baker will make his second start in right field Friday. He’s batting .231 overall, and is 2-for-9 vs. left-handers and 4-for-17 vs. right-handers this season. Right-handed batters are hiting .349 against Milwaukee’s Randy Wolf, while lefties are hitting .290.

* Geovany Soto was 2-for-17 in the just completed homestand. Adrian Cardenas is still looking for his first Major League hit.

* Pitching matchups vs. the Brewers:

Friday: Matt Garza vs. Randy Wolf

Saturday: Chris Volstad vs. Shaun Marcum

Sunday: Jeff Samardzija vs. Marco Estrada

— Carrie Muskat

Share this:

Like this:

Related

1 Comment

Hey isn’t Rich Bordi the guy who had a no hitter through 8 2/3 innings, and Juan Samuel hit a home run, and the cubs ended up loosing that game? May not have been that game they are talking about above, but I remember watching the end of that game.
Someone check that for me…

Meta

The following are trademarks or service marks of Major League Baseball entities and may be used only with permission of Major League Baseball Properties, Inc. or the relevant Major League Baseball entity: Major League, Major League Baseball, MLB, the silhouetted batter logo, World Series, National League, American League, Division Series, League Championship Series, All-Star Game, and the names, nicknames, logos, uniform designs, color combinations, and slogans designating the Major League Baseball clubs and entities, and their respective mascots, events and exhibitions.